Beating the game without any unit losses (Paladin)

[Chase]

Yeah I will, Im still working on reaching the upgrade in the mind tree. Only a few levels away.

[Chase]

Or not..

When I came home and sat down to play the game it apparantly wouldent let me. If I try click "New game", "Load game" or "Options" then the game just throws me back to Windows. I just get a message telling me that kb.exe has stoped working.

Spent a few hours trying to fix it by trying some of advices on the tech support part of the forum, but nothing helped.

I guess thats its then for my adventure..

[Calinda]

Just reinstall it ... Saves usually aren't in the game folder, so reinstalling should work fine.

[Razorflame]

that is some bad luck rofl but should be fixed with reinstall

and why the F*** u use archers? they are expensive in leadership and their damage is quite low compared to it

your better of with a evil beholder/alchemist/cannonneer just to name a few almost every ranged unit is better than an archer

[Vilk]

Originally Posted by Razorflame

that is some bad luck rofl but should be fixed with reinstall

and why the F*** u use archers? they are expensive in leadership and their damage is quite low compared to it

your better of with a evil beholder/alchemist/cannonneer just to name a few almost every ranged unit is better than an archer

I agree that Archer are a little over evaluated but it's hard to deny that they can get strong bonus that those you quote cannot have (you can add Catapult). That's the dragon arrow spells, the elf bow, the archer warrior talent and the archer leadership bonus you can learn both in warrior tree.

[Calinda]

Telescopic sight, morale from marshal's baton, initiative from banner of heroism and probably there is even more stuff that works on archers that neither Vilk nor I have mentioned ...

[Vilk]

In fact Telescopic sight works for mechanical units so not only Archer. And Dwarf unit can also get morale bonus, probably more than human, and get Leadership bonus. The initiative bonus works too for Catapult.

But yes that's the point the numerous bonus dedicated to Archers. Quote that the animal bonus doesn't work for Beholders (I'm not fully sure of this but almost).

[Chase]

Ok. I eventually got the game working and have been busy playing it since Friday more or less .

Archers, yes they suck and they pretty much always get focused. But early their frost arrow helped me a lot as it kept hostile mobs away for 1-2 turns. I guess I could probably have used priests in their spot. When I go for Impossible with no unit losses I most likely will. That extra heal helps a lot in order to keep the losses down.

I’ve had countless games where I’ve only lost 1-2 units. Often as the last unit would hit my royal snakes and kill a couple, then the royal snakes would kill them in their retaliation and voila reload time.

I only ever use 2 spells now. Resurrection rank 2 and Healing rank 3. I cant upgrade Resurrection to rank 3 as I will only to cast it twice then due to my 61 mana.

I just got Lina as well, but I don’t really get an opening to use Orb due to the way I play right now.

Now I use:

Royal Snakes
Cannoners
Inquisitors
Evil Beholders
Alchemists

Reserve: Archmages and Archers.

I don’t really like the Alchemists at this point, but they server their purpose as I’ve run into the Giants. And their Earthquake makes going for 0 losses horrible if you don’t have units with a lot of hitpoints. Especially as I can only use my res (Inquisitor) on a level 4 unit once during any battle.

So to wrap it up, I’ve cleared out the Freedom isles with all quests except 3 named heroes. (Egby, Puppeteer and Bart Bart this game.). And Im running around in Upper and Lower Hadar now killing what can be killed without to many reloads.

I also use my spirits alot as their extra damage help me quite a bit. So I got the rage spirit exp talents in the Might tree, while I went for level 3 order magic + 3/3 healing in the Magic tree.

If people care I can probably upload my savegame. But unless someone asks for it particularly I won’t.

It is really weird playing like this as I play extremely aggressive and defensive at the same time. (lvl 15 and 0 losses so far)

As always, inputs etc are welcome!